Telex from Australian embassy in Bonn to Canberra and
Brussels, Apr 19,
1994 on legal status of Irving and Deckert
prosecutions

Australia's Legal Counsel Europe in Brussels on
Apr 19, 1994
asks a Hamburg law firm to advise on the legal meaning of
Mr Irving's alleged "conviction" by the Germans,: is he
innocent until his appeal is heard?

Replying to a March 13, 1998 protest from the
Australian Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) about the ban,
Immigration Minister
Phillip Ruddock also wrongly alleges on April 1, 1998
that David Irving has "criminal convictions"